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A week on from an unimaginable tragedy, a community gathered to honour its two heroes – and show that ‘light can push away the darkness’.

Outside the very doors he and others barricaded to stop terrorist Jihad Al-Shamie, Rabbi Daniel Walker delivered a powerful speech on Thursday morning (October 9).

“Evil tried to defile these steps – we will not allow that to happen,” he told crowds outside the synagogue at Heaton Park Hebrew Congregation exactly a week on from the Yom Kippur attack.

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Hundreds gathered to hear prayers, sing and take part in a commemorative silence to honour the two innocent men killed in the October 2 atrocity.

A box of flowers in memory of Adrian Daulby, 53, and Melvin Cravitz, 66, were

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